For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 364
HAROLD BEECHER STRONG....Harold Beecher Strong, was born in Wilton Junction, Iowa, where he now lives, December 27, 1880. His father, C. B. Strong, was a native of Estego county, New York, and came to Iowa about 1860. He located at Wilton Junction and was identified in the grocery business for thirty-five years, a part of the time handling general merchandise. He became quite prominent in mercantile and financial circles and served for eleven years as president of the Union Bank, being instrumental in connection with Dr. A. B. Cooling and J. M. Rider in securing the establishment of the German-American College at Wilton Junction. He was a man of positive convictions and refused at all times to take any active part in politics. Fraternally he was identified with the Masonic order and was a member of the commandery at Muscatine and Kaaba Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Davenport, Iowa. Religiously he was connected with the Presbyterian church and for many years served as trustee in that denomination. He departed this life in 1897 and his remains were interred in Oakdale cemetery. The mother of our subject, Harriet ( Beecher ) Strong, is a native of Hannibal, New York, and a relative of the famous Henry Ward Beecher. She is now living in Wilton Junction. There were three children in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Strong : Etta L., now the wife of K. J. McCauley, a Presbyterian minister, of Fulton, Illinois ; Anna B., deceased ; and Harold Beecher, our subject.Reared under the parental roof, Harold B. Strong received his preliminary education in the public schools and then took a four years' course at St. John's Military Academy, at Delafield, Wisconsin, graduating in 1901. Desiring to pursue his studies further, he spent one year at the State University of Iowa and two years later entered the general merchandise business at Wilton Junction under the firm name of Strong & Potter. This firm owns a fine new building thirty by one hundred and ten feet in foundation area and carries a large and well selected stock which meets the demands of a wide region in Muacatine county.
In 1903 Mr. Strong was united in marriage to Miss Mabelle Eversol of St. Louis, and one child, Virginia Louise, born February 8, 1910, has blessed this union. Mr. Strong is an active member of the Masonic order, serving as master of the blue lodge at Wilton Junction in 1909-1910. He is identified with the chapter and commandery at Muscatine and the consistory and shrine at Davenport, Iowa, and he and his wife are both members of the Eastern Star at Wilton Junction. For three yers he was the youngest Scottish Rite Mason in this part of the state. He is a stanch believer in the Christian religion and served as chairman of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian church for three years. A man of fine social qualities and pleasing manner, Mr. Strong has many frineds in the county with whose interests he has been intimately connected since his earliest recollection, and he justly ranks as one of the representative citizens of the county.
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